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The chamber pulsed with warmth and breath. It was not light that greeted the six Heralds, nor shadow, but invitation.
The Hall of Want—Abyssus's fourth trial.
Unlike the brutal domains before, there was no hostility here. No screams, no fire, no void. Only velvet air, thick with the scent of jasmine and blood, and the soft sound of beating hearts—not theirs, but something beneath them, something alive.
One by one, the Heralds were separated—drawn by unseen whispers. A soft pull of desire. A promise not made aloud, but felt deep in their cores.
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Seraphiel – The Judgment Blade
She stood alone in a cathedral of white marble. Her armor was gone, replaced by silken robes that shimmered with light. But her sword was missing, her divine justice absent.
“Where—” she began, before he appeared.
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The one she had judged. The only soul she ever spared. The lover she condemned to exile instead of death.
He stood there, whole, beautiful, shirtless, gleaming in celestial gold. His eyes pierced her, but not with blame, with desire.
“Do you miss it?” he asked, voice velvet and fire. “The touch, Seraphiel? The warmth you gave up for law?”
He moved closer. His fingers brushed her cheek. His lips near hers. The urge to close that distance throbbed like blood.
A whisper crept into her mind:
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You don’t have to be the sword here.
You can be flesh.
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Her knees weakened.
Just as she surrendered to the kiss, she felt the sword again, not in her hand, but inside her. Her need to judge. Her fear of weakness.
Her desire.
Tears burned down her face as she kissed him then shoved her hand through his chest. His body turned to light. Her robes burned away.
She stood in judgment, trembling, aroused, ashamed.
The cathedral shattered.
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Vashiel – The Last Executioner
He found himself in a desert of silver sand, beneath twin moons.
Before him knelt hundreds of faces souls he had executed. Their necks bore his mark.
And in the center stood Amaya, the only woman who never touched him. Who begged to die by his hand, and whom he spared.
She was nude, arms open. The wind licked across her curves like a lover. Her voice was the sound of memory:
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“You could never kill what you loved, Vashiel.”14Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAv1abyt7q6
“And you loved me.”
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He was naked now too, her hands exploring his scars, her mouth at his throat, her body arching over his. But every moan she made sounded like one of the souls he had judged.
Their bodies moved, frenzied, desperate. But even in ecstasy, his eyes saw blood on his hands.
And hers.
She looked into his eyes and said, “You can stay here forever. Drown in me. Forget the blade.”
He did not reply. He kissed her one last time.
Then bit off his own tongue, choked on his blood, and collapsed.
When he awoke naked, bleeding, he was alone again.
The desert was gone.
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Luminara – Flame of Lost Suns
She stepped into a golden oasis, an entire universe bathed in her own starlight.
The people below worshipped her. Suns bowed in her presence. Entire civilizations rose and fell by her will.
And beside her sat the child she once bore in secret, the child lost to the collapse of the Nova Court.
He was real here. Glowing. Smiling. Laughing.
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“Why did you leave me, Mother?” he asked, nestled in her arms.14Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5IeLSLTaKN
“Why did you burn everything except your own heart?”
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She wept, cradling him, singing songs in the old language. He touched her cheek, and his tiny fingers flared into cosmic fire. The universe itself bent to her emotion.
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The promise that she could undo all her loss, just by staying.
“Burn it all again,” whispered a voice. “Create a new cosmos where no one dies. Be goddess. Be more.”
She lifted her hand and for a heartbeat, nearly let her child absorb her.
But she turned and whispered, “You’re not him.”
And incinerated the dream.
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Korayn – The Maker of Chains
He stood before a home.
His home. Woodsmoke. Furnace heat. The soft coo of his wife. The giggle of his daughter.
The chains were gone. The forge silent. His hammer cold.
“You never needed to fight gods,” his wife whispered. “You only needed us.”
She touched his chest, sliding down, kissing the curve of his belly. Her body invited him, soft, warm, familiar. The bed behind them whispered promises of rest and release.
He took her. Slow. Deep. Tears falling on her skin as they moved like they used to, before he was called “Herald.”
But when he finished when he was gasping and whispering her name, she turned and said:
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“Then why did you leave us?”14Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0drHdNtefR
“You forged chains for the world, but not for your heart.”
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The bed turned to iron. Her body turned to ash.
Korayn stood, erect and weeping, staring into the flames of his guilt.
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Theron – The Archivist of Forgotten Time
He stood in an endless library. His memories returned. Every second of every life he ever lived, or saw, or imagined.
And in the center: Himself—a younger version.
Confident. Handsome. Unburdened.
“I can take over again,” the Younger Theron said. “You’re too afraid of what you know. You can’t even feel anymore.”
A portal opened beside them, a woman he once loved stood within it. She was naked and covered in ink, each line a memory they shared.
“Make love to her,” the young Theron said. “Let me take the weight again. You can just feel.”
Theron hesitated.
But he knew.
Desire wasn’t the problem. Escape was.
He burned the books. One by one.
The library screamed.
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Elysia – The Voice Between Worlds
She stepped into a cathedral of mirrors, where her own image danced across every reflection.
Thousands of her. All naked. All singing.
And in the center, a woman she once loved, lost long ago to the Great Quiet.
The woman knelt before her, kissed her thighs, and whispered:
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“Your voice isn’t power. It’s pleasure.”14Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡiUFKX5mBPq
“Sing for yourself, for once.”
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The mirrors began to moan, singing a chorus of her own repressed longing. Hands. Lips. Mouths. Hers. Others. Hers again.
Her song broke. She screamed, not in pain, but in orgasmic release.
And then sobbed.
Because she knew: if she stayed, she would never sing again for others.
She struck every mirror. Shattered every moan.
And walked out humming.
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All six Heralds returned to the Hall.
Trembling. Naked. Weeping. Touched. Changed.
And before them now stood the next trial:
A figure cloaked in void and gold.
Abyssus.
Not as a beast.
But as desire made flesh.
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The Hall had changed.
Where once the chamber shimmered with illusion and personal temptation, now it pulsed like a living lung. The walls were flesh and glass. The stars visible through the ceiling were unmoving, like painted eyes. And the air, no longer sweet, no longer warm, was heavy. Charged. The kind of heat found in the space between lovers, gods, or executioners.
Six Heralds stood, raw with exposure.
Trembling from memories they'd never admit aloud.
Wounded by pleasure. Strengthened by resistance.
And then, it stepped forth.
A ripple passed through space itself.
A soundless hush, like the breath before a kiss.
A form took shape, descending from a ceiling that wasn't there—like a droplet of oil into still water, rippleless and inevitable.
Abyssus had come.
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Not even as judgment.
It appeared as everything they wanted, yet couldn’t ask for.
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Its Form Was Not One.
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It was male to Seraphiel—tall, scarred, and radiant, his voice like sunlight cutting through lawbooks.
To Vashiel, it was genderless, faceless, a perfect smooth body cloaked in black silk, commanding submission with just a stare.
For Luminara, it was a woman made of flame, eyes wide as galaxies, her smile the thing that could resurrect stars—and burn them again.
To Korayn, it was his wife, reimagined in divine proportions—hips strong, lips bleeding with promise, a forge in her breath.
To Theron, it was himself, the future version, perfected and terrifying. A god among echoes, whispering forbidden knowledge through its grin.
And for Elysia, it was a choir—a sensual, collective presence of women and men and everything in between, all singing her name with voices that caressed her spine.
And yet… despite these fractured forms, it was always one.
Abyssus.
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The Lust before Consciousness.
It moved toward them, barefoot, without urgency, every step shifting the rules of physics. The Heralds could feel their own biology responding—not by choice, but by some primal code embedded in their bones.
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Worship.
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Abyssus Spoke
But not with words. With pleasure.
Each Herald heard a voice inside their want:
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Seraphiel:
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“You judged every soul but your own. Why not lie down now? Let me pin your sword-hand. Let me ask you to stay.”
And she ached to say yes.
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Vashiel:
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“You hide behind steel, but you never killed the need to be taken. Let go. Be mine. I’ll command you like a master commands silence.”
And he yearned to kneel.
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Luminara:
“You want to be the universe, but I can be the skin of it. Let me wrap around your flame. Let me moan your name in nebulae.”
And she glowed hotter than ever.
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Korayn:
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“Forge no more chains. Just forge heat. One last time. Let me scream into
your hammer, and echo down your bloodline.”
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And he swallowed hard, fists trembling.
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Theron:
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“What if the final answer is me? Touch me, and you will never need to seek again. I am the conclusion. You are the longing.”
And he felt the lie—and the comfort of it.
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Elysia:
“Sing for me. Sing into me. Let my name be your song, and your song become wet, warm, wide. I will echo through you forever.”
And she nearly cried with desire.
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And then it smiled.
Abyssus.
No longer whispering. But speaking aloud now—voice like sex and theology, rough silk and knives wrapped in honey.
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“You have tasted want. Now know this: I am not temptation. I am origin.”
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“The universe was not born from light. Or fire. Or even void.”
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“It was born from want. From the heat between the uncreated and the never-was.
It stepped into the center of the six.
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“I am not here to destroy you. Not yet. You are not my enemies. You are my children.”
They gasped—every Herald felt it deep in their bones, their minds, their sex.
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They were echoes of something older.
Extensions of a Will that had existed before Will was even a word.
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Then It Asked:
“Who will surrender first?”
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And the world trembled.
The Hall of Want burned with aphrodisiac heat, the Heralds drawn toward Abyssus as if gravity itself had been rewritten.
But one stepped forward.
Not with lust. Not with worship. But with tears.
Elysia.
Her voice cracked:
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“I don’t need to be yours to sing.”14Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgUHIX3BMNs
“And I will not be your echo.”
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And she began to sing—a song without desire.14Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfZCRl3CHiO
A song without seduction.
A lullaby.
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A scream.
A rejection.
Abyssus blinked.
And the entire Hall fractured.
Not broken.
Challenged.
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